skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe by just luck he's found himself in possession of a business that's strength turns out to be patent trolling. He's probably rationalized to himself that what they're doing is "right", and since they're good at it, they keep doing it. The fact that it makes boat loads of money is probably secondary.
Are There Any Insurance That Covers Financial Risks?
This is true. I was mostly offended by the "he's a bad person so who cares about his rights" argument.
Meanwhile I’m discovering that actually following the account is highly annoying - they tweet 20-50 Tweets per day, many of them are sent out twice over the day “because people might not have seen them earlier”.

Wait, she was interning for Buzzfeed? I joke, I joke...

An interesting account of what I suspect is all too common in the startup scene- some guys that have grabbed hold of some buzzwords and refuse to let go. A shame.
Bitcoin, or How to Hammer in Nails with a Microscope
Yeah, pricing is not ready yet. Our plan is to leave 5000 face detection/recognition method calls per month for a free plan. We are still working on other plans, check us in a week or two for that.
http://cubieboard.org/ has a SATA port but it's not shipping yet.

This is a recent post from a blog I read:
http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/10/09/arm-board-comparis...

and the linked to chart has SATA as a feature and it seems to be pretty thin on the ground.
Large asteroid Vesta once had molten core, magnetic field
Yep it's a bummer - this is discussed in a comment below.
From the HBS Rock Center website (http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurship/):

"By 2008, nearly 50% of its MBA graduates were becoming entrepreneurs by their 15th reunion"

Granted, most of these weren't web startups. (Disclaimer: I got an MBA and found it to be a worthwhile experience)
While what others have said about remote private key generation is rather lapse security and could be used for malicious purposes, however for development purposes it's a neat little utility. Nice work.
If you're in a position to generate a CSR, you should know that you never, EVER, let anyone else generate or even see your private key (including the commercial CA from which you're requesting a certificate). By using an online utility like this, you give the site owner an important component needed to perform man-in-the-middle attacks. Don't do it, kids.
I believe the trademark is registered regardless of capitalisation, otherwise we'd have ridiculous situations like GoOgLe being non-infringing. So 'iTunes Match' is protected whether it's spelled 'ITUNES MATCH', 'iTUNES match' or whatever other combination you want.

That is however a separate issue to a company's preferred usage of its mark, where it has the prerogative to specify a preferred capitalisation. Again, the examples of 'Blackberry' and 'MicroSoft' being incorrect are relevant here.

As an aside, I love that we got into a debate on this. In what other community would such needless minutiae take up anyone's time? :)
I'll ignore your grossly inaccurate phrase "taxing someone to die".

your money is taxed once: when you receive it.

Until you receive it, it isn't your money, it's your parent's.
Thanks for the great suggestions Nirvana! I was only seventeen in 1998, so I was kind of hung up on teen spirit, girls, and rock'n roll.

> Or more specifically, an understanding of economics.

You are very correct. I had no frickin clue about economics. I kinda feel like you have to have the experience and wisdom to judge books. I didn't have that at the time. I needed to fill that gap in. So although it may appear I wasted a lot of time, I feel that I have a really solid grasp on many things that were mysteries to me before. And I can't really put a price on what that is personally worth to me.

> I went the options-spreads on canadian junior mining companies route, and I got out of the market in the summer of 2007 when I felt the crash was imminent. (I was a year early, but for that kind of deal you don't worry about not nailing the absolute top!)

Heh, that is awesome! Nicely done.

One of the things my data has also brought me is friendship. Usually from people many many years my senior. One of them who has really helped me in life and I consider a mentor, also pulled this exact same thing. Getting out in 2007. I was always impressed by that.
Link to written "one line" & description, please?

ETA: I mean non-video form.
ExactTarget acquires Pardot
The estate tax doesn't tax the first $5,000,000 of an estate. After that, the rate is 35%.

It's a tax on the one percent. The vast, vast majority of Americans will never be bothered by it.
"His remarks are foolish, yes."

I did not say this. Please don't imply that I did.
The "threat" of 3D printing is not piracy it's prototypes. Potentially anyone can make a prototype, find a manufacturer in Asia and start a business. In other words, it spreads the power of creativity to more people. Patent trolls, the parasites that they are, want to piggyback on others' creativity.
That said, the person with an MBA earns much more, on average, than the person with very little formal education.

Certainly it's not a requirement, and spending two years getting an MBA may just slow you down and mire you in debt. On the other hand, it could be a valuable asset to fall back on if a person realizes their app isn't a real business or entrepreneurship isn't for them.
The new eBay
This is a relatively old question on Stackoverflow, and Dianne Hackborn's answer is authoritative as usual.

To sum it up: Don't worry about global free memory. Your app can use up only a relatively small part. More accurately, each component (Activity, Service, etc.) of your app with the <process> attribute can only use up to 48MB. Usually, all your components are in one process.

Within your process, Android will "destroy" (null all references) to components in your process and recreate them to optimize memory use. At times, Android will destroy every component in a process and delete ane re-create whole processes from the saved state of each component. This explains why PIDs are not reliable for tracking android app resource use. Your tasks (the components on the back stack starting with the task root, which is the component that was launched by the Launcher) are not tied to one process, nor one PID, throughout their lifespan.
Is Online Communication an Asset or Liability in Sustaining the Human Journey
10 reasons RIM will make a comeback
Thats a good point you raise. But at the end, there is the ultimate reason that Apple has: "Just because other Apps are doing this, does not mean you can do this too." I think they have put "cloud storage" into a category, that has to offer IAP. Since they made Dropbox and Google Drive offer IAPs already, they expect every new entrant to follow in line. I am sure they will start targeting other SaaS markets as well.
It's called "The Economist".

So, a not so wild guess would be: the finance industry, and business and policy circles second, that is Washington, Wall Street, Soho and the like guys, with wannabe "sophisticated" money grubbers an influential third.
19 Mobile Retail Stats You Have to See to Believe
An info on the site itself when to use this, would be quite helpful. For example, I recently generated a self-signed SSL certificate for local development where this would have been handy. You should not use this for anything production related, of course.
You learn how to do it right by doing it wrong a few times, feeling the pain, and looking for a better way. Sometimes that comes from looking at other people's code, and sometimes it comes from your own inspiration. Either way, there's no magic formula aside from perseverance and working with other people (who won't always be right, but you'll get ideas from them.)
Push the inheritance tax to 99%, and lower the income and business tax instead, to 1% if possible.

When you're dead, you don't need money (unless you want to buy cryogeny contract, but you'll pay for it when you are living).

If you pass on this money to your family, 2 things happen :
- you skew the odds in their favor. Other people who might be equally capable and intelligent won't be able to compete with them. that's a class society as in medieval europe, where wealth in inherited
- you incentivize their laziness, and encourage them to destroy their life with this unearned money. you basically ensure they won't be able to grow from normal bad experiences. trust fund kids give a glowing example.

As much as I hate giving money to a government, I'd rather see my money there when I die that either or both of these 2 things happening. The alternative would be earmarking that money to debt reduction, so that at least it wouldn't be redistributed. That could be a good alternative.
Apple Doesn't Need Tutoring on Software Design
> For example I was wondering whether the certificate would be trusted by browsers or if it's self-signed.

It's making CSRs, not certificates.
I would guess that because the appeals court decided that granting the injunction was decided by the judge on improper grounds, Apple doesn't have to lose the bond amount. Apple's claims were not proven wrong, but the judge made the wrong decision based on Apple's claims.

I am not a lawyer.
How can this get a patent, isn't every other DRM scheme already prior art? It seems irrelevant that the files are to be used to print some real world objects.
A suggestion for the future:
Implement an optional filter for the ratings so that it will show with five stars the range from 4* to 5*.
4.0-4.2 - one star (1.0-4.0 is also one star)
4.2-4.4 - two stars
...
4.8-5.0 - five stars
This is because most people can't comprehend how to rate generally good things but which are not perfect on the absolute scale. Relative scale is an even harder concept.

This method won't help of course so in the future you'll need to distinguish so people as "experts" (this is a human task, it can't be awarded statistically - by a number of reviews or anything similar). After that implement separate rating for them.

Even that won't fix biased reviews but will mitigate them considerably. The task of implementing good rankings is a very hard one.
The Science of the Perfect Nap
1. Ctrl-R, a common shortcut to rotate a component, it's like second nature. Unfortunately, it means something different in a browser. Argh.

2. Don't click "save" unless you mean it. Oops. You just lost your work.

Those were minor complaints, these are not.

3. Searching through the components. You must let us see what we're browsing through. You must also let us filter.

4. PCB - How do I scatter components? Or must I pluck them out one at a time?

5. No Test Point footprint! Why does nobody use test points?

6. I know someone already said grid, but, grid.

I know you like your nice clean simple no-clutter UI, but put the help text on the screen, in the margins or something. You can make it optional.
Facebook apparently down in several countries worldwide
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Their demo seems to be over quota, getting this error:

API_KEY_USAGE_PASSED_QUOTA - app passed hourly face operation usage quota

(edit- it's back now. The demo behaves well but it did identify my grandmother as "male".)
A rotating, 3D nebula
It's not a tax on death, it's a tax on assets. The fact you can live most of your life with a growing asset that is untaxed (just hold stocks and live off the dividends, for instance), vs actually having to pay taxes on the value of something is a benefit for the wealthy already. Letting them pass on this tax benefit is ridiculous.

Also, if someone buys say an apartment complex, using depreciation for their tax benefit, then dies and leaves it to an heir, the heir generally receives a favorable tax benefit since the asset gets a step-up in cost basis, whereas if the original person sold the asset, they'd have to then pay the taxes from the profit and the depreciation they took over the years.

The tax code is already heavily weighted to favor the wealthy, allowing people to amass great wealth without having to contribute it back to society is very short-sighted. Earning money is fine, dying with it is a sin, as someone once said.
off topic: it seems that putting a link improves the buoyancy of the posts, doesn´t it?.
Does anyone have a JavaScript implementation of the paper? It looks like it would be really fun to play with in <canvas>.

Edit Quoth YouTube: "74 minutes on an nVidia GeForce GTX 460" ... maybe not so fun.
why are u a derp
A CSR is Certificate Signing Request, not a certificate, suggesting that this utility exists for the purpose of submitting a CSR to a Certificate Authority (CA). What "development purpose" could that serve? Nobody should use this, especially developers, who should know better.
Considering this is the XScreenSaver creator's blog, you might just get your wish.
I'd say that most of the value from an MBA program is through your peers rather than from books. To complement the reading, I would recommend reaching out to other entrepreneurs.
i think im f*ing reatard
Imagine what kinds of tools you could write if you had a giant corpus of schematics and edit histories. "Find a path through the graph of existing parts to wire these parts together" would be one example.
1. I think there is something very cunning about a plan to force people to pay royalties on the method of collecting their royalties

2. If they set the price high enough (which they will for the same reason that music prices are so high), then this is the best possible outcome for the future of 3d printers
Love this simple interface...Great way to interact with friends and sports simultaneously...amazing service
Good move, Twitter. They just bought an A/B mobile testing service for mobile apps which is super awesome given that their Twitter apps have always sucked and now they make it available for the rest of us for free. Making friends with both the users and the developers so maybe people will forget about promoted tweets and API policy changes.
Ask HN: How do I bootstrap a freelancing business
I'm currently trying to move into freelancing part time and I'm struggling with a bunch of thorny problems. Everything I have read suggests looking for customers amongst existing contacts I have. However everybody I know works for big corporates and my existing employer would not be happy with me approaching them.

Similarly the few people I have spoken to would like to see a portfolio, but everything I have worked on for the past few years is locked away on various company internets.

With no contacts and nothing to show, how do I go about bootstrapping?
yay! i just claimed coke (http://www.coca-cola.com/)
If you want to go out and try some more mathematical approach use the exercises on http://projecteuler.net/ to improve a little on the math side

If you want to understand what the computers does and on what level you just need to start reading books or going to courses

Books about algorithms and data structures (Cormen et al)
Any book introductory to Operating Systems is a must (Tanenbaum or Silberschatz operating systems)
>LWN seems to be doing fine

So, how do we know they are doing fine? It seems they have a bare bones website with some news. Looking at a sponsors page, I see a single company. I don't see any signs of them making real money.

Do we have any info on their financials?
I don't know about Chile, but in Mexico with similar laws the company will go to something similar to chapter 11. And this money owned to employees will the considered as part of the company debts (however it'll be the higher priority debt).

As a debt it can be negotiated (with unions) or if the company is liquidated it'll be pay (in full or part) out of any money that can be extracted from the company assets.
German Police eavesdropping Facebook, Gmail, Skype Conversations
It wouldn't work for me in Safari 6.0 / OSX 10.7.5. Never made it past the green progress bar.
And this kids, is how SkyNet started.
As well as the problems mentioned in other comments, this idea suffers from a massive "analog hole" just as with audio. If you can print an object, it would be extremely easy to sample the pulses sent to the stepper motors and run a "virtual 3D printer" algorithm on those waveforms to turn it back into an unencrypted 3D model suitable for unlimited printing on any printer. The only way around this would be to forbid 3D printers from printing unsigned objects, and forbid people from making their own (unencumbered) 3D printers. Given how many people have made their own repraps, that's already a non-starter.
CrocoPat: A Tool for Simple and Efficient Relational Programming
> Conway's game of life would look organic if you zoomed out enough,

Are you sure? This isn't obvious to me.
I also have an MBA and I read hacker news.

I'm not going to tell people to get an MBA or a CS degree or take some kind of sabbatical. My MBA found me a better job even before I graduated (I went to evening classes). So I consider it to be helpful to me. I paid my tuition as I went.

Still, an MBA pushed me to start learning programming after seeing the MBA job market vs. programmer job market. Plus I was just used to learning at night after 3 years of evening classes.

If you don't want to get an MBA, maybe consider having one on your team. Don't think you can give yourself an MBA by reading HN. Most of the articles on HN relating to business are simplistic overviews of some of the basic concepts they teach MBAs. This includes anything related to finance, economics, marketing, branding, communication, leadership, critical thinking, and public speaking. It's disappointing when I go to a meetup and the speaker(s) cannot communicate their great ideas or businesses.

Other than the stress of school and work, the worst thing about getting an MBA was the blank stares when I mentioned something about Star Trek in class once (something like, "This case is just like Kobayashi Maru"). Maybe I'm different, then.

Don't have too much of a negative view about MBA people or the degree. They're closely related to computer folks. For instance, like CS, it helps to like math to be good in finance.
There's a diminished expectation of privacy on a school campus. I might be sympathetic if the student were arguing for a greater degree of privacy, but arguing that the school is trying to brand her with the mark of the beast is bullshit. That kind of irrationality was long held up as an excuse to torture and abuse people who didn't subscribe to it, so I have no sympathy when it's played as a victim card. There are many religious schools and homeschooling options available for people who are determined to follow ultra-orthodox beliefs.
You could probably write a higher order function (like "observe-graph" in their example) to distribute the work across multiple machines. Maybe even map it onto a Storm cluster automatically.
It's clearly not a requirement, but I don't think it's a proper characterization to say "most of the richest people in the world have very little formal education." Of the top 25 people in Forbes 400:

6 inherited or married into their wealth.

5 are college dropouts.

5 have only a BS, mostly business or finance.

3 have a BS and some grad school.

4 have an MBA or MS in business.

2 have some other graduate degree.

All but one of the college dropouts are in tech.
Let me try and spin the "raise your rates" advice in a different way - since it's a piece of advice I give pretty often too.

It's not necessarily due to undercharging that I advise folk to "raise your rates" - it's because it's a fantastic client discovery mechanism.

You want clients who pay more. The clients who pay more tend to get more value from your work.

So at any point the clients you have that are willing to pay more are generally better clients (for you and for them). So if you raise your rates and only support those clients you get a set of better clients who are going to be happier with your work, and give you more money.

Those clients, in turn, allow you to find similar good clients. Through recommendation and marketing for those clients. So you grow your set of good clients.

You'll then find a subset of those will be willing to pay more - because you provide more value for them.

Repeat. You will find that some of the work you do changes radically - at least in the way you sell it - during this period.

Raising rates isn't (just) about extracting the most money from your clients as possible. It's a way to help you find the clients who you will serve best - and because of that they're more than happy to pay you more.

To answer your end questions (and this is a little bit unfair since this is the second time I've started my own consultancy so have probably moved through the levels a bit faster this time - and I have a very strong idea of where my value-niche is).

If normal hourly is $x to $y - then I very deliberately started at $y just under 2.5 year ago (I very much do not want the clients who want the cheapest possible solution - learned that lesson ten years back ;-).

Currently my effective hourly rate (I don't actually charge by the hour any more so clients never see that number) is about what my day rate was when I started - so about 1:8, 1:9... something like that. Looking back with 20:20 hindsight I could have made that transition quicker if I'd been braver.

After a conversation a little while back I have discovered there are people doing similar stuff to what I'm doing with a slightly different kind of client for about five times what I'm charging. This is being actively addressed ;-)
http://cunningplan.com/
> Push the inheritance tax to 99%, and lower the income and business tax instead, to 1% if possible.

The wealthy would respond to such a system by giving all their stuff to their kids before they die. It always amuses me when people prescribe magical tax plans in a static world as if people won't change their behavior. Despite thousands of changes in tax law over decades, the maximum level of revenue the government has been able to extract from the population has remained remarkably constant[1]

[1]http://www.heritage.org/federalbudget/current-tax-receipts
This same story was deleted a couple of days ago, with good reason. Flagged.
What an awesome line.
More Support Emerges for Low-Power Server Chips
sounds like you think not having an MBA qualifies you to be among the richest in the world.
> ..open standards like HTML5 offer enough to give a
> good reading experience on most devices

It doesn't matter if it's HTML5 or whatever. If they don't find a sustainable model, then the magazine will not exist and you won't have the content - open or otherwise.

Second: content trump format. But while the focus is on content, the format is equally pleasant, better than most other magazines that spend a good amount of energy trying to imitate their tree-based predecessors.

> Maybe iOS-only is the only way he could get that to work, and that's the right choice for him.
> If that's true, I still think it's unfortunate.

To me the only unfortunate thing is for this experiment to fail. Marco is a great writer, and his proposal seems honest and has merit.
He struck it rich with Microsoft, survived cancer, and to thank the universe for all this amazingly good luck he decided to become an asshole patent troll.

Sometimes I just don't understand how people think.
"....boomers now sell off assets to finance retirement, putting pressure on equity prices and denying young workers an easy route to wealth"

Not true. Imagine if all stocks had 250 P/E and are now coming back down to 10 P/E in one month. Who benefits?

Cheaper equity means higher yield, and higher yield means an easy route to wealth.

If you are young, don't let the reserve bank fool you into thinking rising prices is good. You have a whole life of investing in you. Would you celebrate every time, after you fill up a tank of petrol, the price of petrol goes up? That's ridiculous, and I encourage you to think the same for prices of investments.

Prices are kept high means when you buy the overpriced investments from other people, some of your wealth is being transferred to them.